Perris Practice by Biltwell

A crew from Biltwell came along and made a little film about the Perris practice in the post below. G

Perris Friendly

Thanks to Julian of Deus LA for organising a private soiree at Perris, for the usual suspects plus some new faces, as a warm-up to DQ USA II. BP

GI on Julian's Triumph

Rusty Butcher's Sportster

Troy Critchlow and his lady

Deus Andie, Jason, Chopper Dave

All colours and creeds welcome

Stacie Bultaco tune up

her Bultaco 250 Sherpa as featured in SB#15

Minibike muscle - read more about them in them in our current issue #21

Andrew Honda XL350 street tracker - behaving very well on German Heidenau K34 tyres (same as Dimitri Coste's BSA C15)

Smiling Jen

Even more smiling Jen

Malle Mile

The Malle Mile looks like it could be quite a spectacle. After the most hectic few weeks in Sideburn history we can't make it, double-booked, but get along and support this new event if you can. G

Bubble Gum Pink is the New Matte Black

Jason McCann's Speed Merchant'd Sportster at Perris. BP

Thrive 005

Radical street scrambler from Thrive Motorcycles, Jakarta, Indonesia.. Looks like a late-'80s official concept bike, if it were powder blue with a yellow seat. And that's a good thing.

The project was one of our most ambitious. Designed and built for very special friend. We've been friends for a couple of years and from that we could say he is one of the most curious graphic designer we know. 

The bike was designed over dozens of questions in his head, he is a kind of person who always wondered how to put ideas and function at the same place. It always intrigue us when we meet people who have visions and dreams, their vibes always inspire us to build something that’s not only good but also meaningful.

The discussions directing us into the ideas about two things that always cross each other, related with dualism in our life. It’s about the multiplication when two things intersected with each other. Like the good and the bad or the black and white. We always wonder what kind of spirit that live between them, we believe there must be more than only neutral circumstances. We believe if the grey area is more mysterious than you could ever think, it could be really bad and smartly good at the same time. This thought pushes us to develop a motorcycle that can be perfectly use when facing the road in a bad condition but still have her own beauty and sleekness nature from the owner’s thought. 

So we started it by creating the whole new sub frame for this little 2008 Yamaha Scorpio to achieve a clean looks under the seat and maximazing the horizontal grid. We picked an aluminum plate for the whole body panel needs in purpose to reducing the weight in a thick material plate. The engine was in a good condition when she came to our front door, but then a few parts got new replacements, and renewed the gaskets after we put it on a vapor blasting treatment to add some contrast and more value to the bike itself before the coloring phase begin. Then we added a PE 28 Carburetor so now she can breathe more fresh air and we covered the custom made stainless steel exhaust with a black exhaust wrap.

To ensure more control, we use a fatbar handlebar completed with the custom clucth and brake lever, custom dashboard with a light indicators and GPS mounting, custom light switch and start button, ended with the custom bar-end turn signal to keep a clean look on bar area. In front suspension, we used a set of Honda’s upside down forks, but we had to modified the triple trees and steering column to make it fit perfectly on a Yamaha’s chassis. For the rear, we used a Yamaha’s swingarm pair it with Showa Monoshock Suspension on a custom made unitrack system. 

For her shoes we used a pair of 18” spoke rims wrapped with Kenda’s Trial Tread Tyre and controlled by a pair of new disc brake system on a aftermarket trial hubs. We modified the original footstep by adding some detail to enhace the grips and pairing it with the chrome shifter and brake control. Then we add a custom-made skid-plate to cover the engine from dirts and rocks while she goes travelling around. There only two main colors on this bike, Gun Metal Grey on top of brushed metal finish at the aluminum panel, and black for the rest of the bike. We used three different black powder coat texture. 

As we know, maybe we can not win everything but proving and experimenting what we believe is always good for us. The ideas itself will make the output naturally stand out among others in todays attention-seeking-trend. The serene sight will deceive people from the basic purpose of the bike, and that’s what we think about this project.

Brat Style Chout

Stopped by Brat Style's year-old shop in Long Beach, LA, on our American whistle-stop trip. It was great to finally meet Go and Masumi in person.
He was cooly busy with finishing this Indian "Chout" for this weekend's Born-Free 7 show in Silverado, CA. We did a feature on his Tokyo shop in Sideburn #18. BP

Go's daily-ride R60/6 BM'

Andy DiBrino on Dirt Quake USA

AMA Supersport road racer and some-time dirt tracker, Andy DiBrino presents his thoughts on Dirt Quake USA. It pretty much sums up what we think... G

Hanni El Khatib

Touring the UK right now. G

Sideburn T-shirts

Here are the Neave twins, two of the fastest flat trackers in Europe, wearing Sideburn T-shirts.

The black one is the Bultaco Astro tech drawing design and is only available for subscribers who sign up to the great 8-issue Sideburn sub deal.
Choose to start with the current issue, 21 or the next one, 22. Remember to choose the correct size shirt.

The blue one is our back issue offer T-shirt and is just £15 (plus post) including a back issue of your choice. Just choose the size and magazine you want from the long dropdown menu.

Photo: Richard Baybutt

Dirt Quake USA: Thanks everyone!

Dirt Quake USA is over and, some how, everyone survived.
There aren't many race events where people feel safer on the track, but it got properly crazy at times. Not 'wearing a funny hat' crazy, 'police cars and ambulances at 2.30am' crazy.

See photos and videos here #dqusa

Massive thanks to See See Motorcycles for making it happen and all our sponsors, especially Harley-Davidson. H-D arranged for some great hooligan racers to come up from So. Cal and beyond, including The Rusty Butcher crew, Helder form Roland Sands, the Suicide Machine Co boys and a big Speed Merchant gang.

We had a lot of great supporters:

Icon One Thousand  www.icon1000.com

Mt. St. Helens MC https://www.facebook.com/pages/MT-St-Helens-MC/132268364039

Lowbrow Customs http://www.lowbrowcustoms.com

Moto Factory PDX http://motofactorypdx.com

Fox Shocks http://www.ridefox.com

Red Clouds Collective http://redcloudscollective.com

W&W Cycles  http://www.wwag.com/

Motothenw.com  http://www.motothenw.com

Stump Town Coffee http://stumptowncoffee.com

Cycle Zombies http://cyclezombies.com

Hop Valley Brewing http://hopvalleybrewing.com

100% goggles http://www.ride100percent.com

Kamp Grizzly  http://kampgrizzly.com

Big thanks to everyone who came out and either raced or spectated, too. There were a lot of good people who'll be talking about Dirt Quake for quite a while.

The high quality event poster is available directly from http://www.seeseemotorcycles.com

Next up is Dirt Quake IV in the UK. The race classes are all sold out, but we have camping and plenty of room for spectators, so make come along and try make the UK event as memorable as the USA (but no police cars, please). G